On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 00:14, Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:06 PM Steven D'Aprano steve@pearwood.info wrote:
*blinks*
When did this happen?
I'm on Python-Ideas, Python-Dev, and I get announcements of new issues on the bug tracker, and I don't recall ever seeing this feature discussed.
Oddly I barely recall it either, even though according to PEP 487 it was posted five times to python-dev, and I approved it. It's a long time ago though (two retirements, for me :-).
I think that __set_name__ was greatly expected as one way to mitigate `DRY` with descriptors it was completely uncontroversial - unlike __init_subclass__ on the same PEP. I for one had used it a lot of times, and I am a big fan of __set_name__
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